--- title: Earth Day 2014: Animated Google Doodle Celebrities With Animals description: It features some of the planet's most beautifully bizarre creatures canonical: https://time.com/71832/earth-day-google-doodle/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-22T15:00:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:48:42.886Z og:title: Google Celebrates Earth Day With Animated Doodle og:description: It features some of the planet's most beautifully bizarre creatures og:url: https://time.com/71832/earth-day-google-doodle/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Google Celebrates Earth Day With Animated Doodle twitter:description: It features some of the planet's most beautifully bizarre creatures twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Celebrate Earth Day With Today's Animated Google Doodle by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Apr 22, 2014 3:00 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Apr 22, 2014 3:00 PM UTC If you’d like to get in the Earth Day spirit, head over to the[ Google homepag](http://www.google.com/)e for an animated celebration of the planet’s coolest creatures. Some of the animals featured in today’s Doodle include the puffer fish, the veiled chameleon, the moon jellyfish and the Japanese macaque. You can search Google to read up on each animal, or share your favorite on Twitter, Facebook and Google+. Here are some of the lovely creatures:  Google.com  Google.com  Google.com To continue celebrating Earth’s most majestic creatures, check out the [winners of the ](http://time.com/71753/meet-the-winners-of-the-most-beautiful-bulldog-contest/)[Beautiful Bulldog Contest](http://time.com/71753/meet-the-winners-of-the-most-beautiful-bulldog-contest/). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/71832/earth-day-google-doodle/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/71832/earth-day-google-doodle/"},"headline":"Celebrate Earth Day With Today's Animated Google Doodle","datePublished":"2014-04-22T15:00:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:48:42.886Z","description":"It features some of the planet's most beautifully bizarre creatures","url":"https://time.com/71832/earth-day-google-doodle/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet","Google","Holidays","Google Doodle","Earth Day","green"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/71832/earth-day-google-doodle/","name":"Celebrate Earth Day With Today's Animated Google Doodle"}}]}] ```